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“T die without remorse; in the insurrection I only desired the well-being
and independence of my country... For 17 or 18 years I have taken an
actwe part in every movement, and always with conviction and sincerity
... My efforts have been for the independence of my compatriots. To this
day we have been unsuccessful. Death has already decimated us. Many
groan in bondage. Many are in exile, their property destroyed, their
Families abandoned without resources at the mercy of the Canadian
winter. In spite of so many mishaps, my heart still keeps its courage and
its hopes for the future; my children and friends will see better days.
Looking tranquilly ahead, I am sure that they will win freedom. That is
what fills me with joy when all around me is sorrow and desolation . . . I
leave behind me children whose only heritage is the memory of my
masfortune. Poor orphans . . . when_you are old enough to reflect, you will
see in_your father a man who has paid on the scaffold for actions such as
have immortalized other hapjrer men. The only crime of your father was
has failure . . . 1 die with the cry on my lips: Vive la Liberté, Vive
U'Indépendance!”
— Chevalier de Lorimier, 1838
(on the eve of his execution)

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Patriotes defeat British troops under General Gore at St.
Denis on November 23, 1837.

Goverment is founded on the authority, and ts instituted for
the benefit of the people; when, therefore, any Government
long and systematically ceases to answer the great ends of its
foundation, the people have a natural right given them by
their Creator to seek after and establish such institutions as
will eld the greatest quantity of happiness to the greates

number.

— Declaration of the Toronto Reformers, 1837

“Tt is not men, it is the system which blasts every hope of good, and till
the system ts overturned, it 1s vain to expect anything of value from
change of representatives or Governors.” ;
— Robert Gourlay, 1818
(radical forerunner of reform movement)

The Communist Party carries forward and builds upon
the traditions of those who, like Mackenze, Papineau, Riel
and De Cosmos, fought for democratic liberties and
Canadian independence.

—from the Road to Socialism in Canada: Program
of the Gommumst Party of Canada

6 e PACIFIC TRIBUNE, JANUARY 20, 1988

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Patriotes and British troops fighting near St. Eustache on December

14, 1837.

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